Business Fellowship Program

The Business Fellowship Program offers companies and institutions the opportunity to meet their business and legal needs while fostering the professional development of the next generation of law and business leaders.

The Clerkship Model

The fellowship is intended as an elite experience and uses the judicial clerkship as its structural model. Like judicial clerkships:

Business fellowships are temporary positions and employers are not expected to offer permanent employment to fellows.

The fellow’s specific responsibilities are determined by the employer, but are likely to include legal work in the business counsel’s office or assignments in the employer’s business operations that draw on the fellow’s legal knowledge.

Benefits of the Program

The fellowship is designed to add value to the business by bringing energetic and thoughtful junior talent to the partnering organization.

At the same time, fellows gain knowledge, experience and mentoring that will speed their transition to a business or legal position following their fellowships.

Types of Fellowships

The program targets highly accomplished young lawyers who are interested in using their legal education in business—either in the law department of an organization or in business operations.

Summer Fellowships are for rising 3L students who work with employers for 10 weeks during the summer. Students apply during the Winter semester of their second year. The fellowship includes a stipend covered by the employer and an alumni donor.

Postgraduate Fellowships are for new alumni who work with employers for a year. Students apply during their last year of law school. Employers are responsible for their stipend.